1.   After five years in Georgia, with jobs scarce, Brown wrote to his brother in New York, who sent him a bus ticket.

2.   Exercise for its own sake is unheard of, and with jobs scarce, Pritchiyev said, few even benefit from farm labor.

3.   In this atmosphere of scarce jobs amid a quickly growing population, Sufi Mohammad has found fertile ground.

4.   Some choose to combat their boredom and scarce job opportunities by sinking into crime.

5.   These Syrians take increasingly scarce jobs in a collapsing economy, remitting millions of dollars per day back to Syria.

6.   With acting jobs scarce, Ms. Manheim learned sign language and spent seven years working in the New York courts as an interpreter for the deaf.

7.   Dismayed by low birth rates, Pope John Paul II on Sunday blamed selfishness by couples and scarce jobs and housing for widespread reluctance to have children.

8.   Impoverished South Africans also complain of illegal immigrants competing for scarce jobs.

9.   Illegal migrants also took up scarce jobs, taxed hard-pressed social services and forged identity documents to vote, he said.

10.   International officials have noticed harassment of the remaining Serbs in the region and said local authorities were giving the scarce jobs available only to Croats.